Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Day One Hundred fifty: evening of December 30th 2009

Remember, I said that I was going to be working from my Mac Book Pro I would be transferring my MS Works files and work with them on MS Word for the Mac. Guess what? (Again, asking that question is a dead give away to what the answer is going to be.) It didn't work. I know that I could go on and give specifics - versions, file types, et al - but I'm not. It would be a waste of time. Microsoft to Microsoft and it did not work. Microsoft Word: 2008 didn't even ofter the the Windows Works file type (.wps). When I selected the 'all files' category in the OPEN menu, I was presented with, in essence, a message that said "huh?" When the file opened, the document on the screen was missing information and had, what I figure was, formatting information. I don't know what was going on, but that is the way it is. I could go out and upload a file conversion application to handle this situation, but I'm not.
The text editor offered by Blogger is sufficient. It catches the flipped characters, but misses the back-to-back word duplication the I occasionally type. So, it will do. I'll just have to be a bit more aware of what I'm doing (meaning - proof read). Maybe, I'll switch over to Word in the near future, because I prefer to take my time while I type and I don't like typing online.
I'll think about it.

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